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DAILY BREAKING NEWS 4 July 18, 2018 WINDY CITY TIMES MCA program reads into ‘Queer Narratives’ BY MELISSA WASSERMAN ing, social-justice intentions and ramifications of technology aimed toward the queer community, Technology and the queer community were the and the role that technology plays in collecting topics of conversation at the Museum of Contem- and communicating queer narratives. porary Art (MCA) Chicago’s “Queer Narratives with “For me, I think the most important thing I Zach Stafford and Jack Halberstam” program on brought to the conversation or try to bring to July 15. conversations like this is that Grindr has so much Stafford is the editor-in-chief of Grindr and history and cache and I have so many feelings its media outlet INTO, a digital LGBTQ magazine about it as an app and I do have a lot of feel- that launched in 2017. Previously, he was the ings about what I’m doing as a journalist, like: editor-at-large for OUT Magazine and an award- Why are you creating journalism within this app? winning journalist at The Guardian. Halberstam, What does it mean to export queer journalism? Is Ph.D., is a professor of gender studies and Eng- that problematic?” Stafford explained. “I think I lish at Columbia University, as well as the au- wanted to show people that we’re being thought- thor of six books, including Skin Shows: Gothic ful right now. Right now, we’re at this moment Horror and the Technology of Monsters (Duke UP, where there is so much happening that a lot of Jack Halberstam (left) and Zach Stafford. 1995), Female Masculinity (Duke UP, 1998), Gaga us started in these positions of power, whether Photo courtesy of MCA Chicago Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal it’s at Columbia, an academic institution, or with (Beacon Press, 2012), and, most recently, Trans: a tech company, that we’re really thinking about and space—that works against and alongside they also ask amazing questions and questions A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability the past a lot and how we’re moving forward and heteronormative time and space and reflecting that you don’t always have the right answer to,” (University of California Press, 2018). They are we’re trying to be as good as we can be, though on that concept in today’s digital world; and the said Stafford, a DePaul University graduate. currently working on several new projects includ- we always make a lot of mistakes on the way and commercialization of queerness as well as the “I think it’s good that Chicago creates a space ing a book titled Wild Thing: Queer Theory After the purpose of it now is to talk about it and have promise of social justice within technology, spe- to reference Jack’s work as a failure and learning Nature. open conversation.” cifically platforms like Grindr. A Q&A portion was from failure and using that as a space to learn “Queer Narratives with Zach Stafford and Jack Stafford added that intersectional, queer con- conducted toward the end of the event. more and create more. I’ve always felt so com- Halberstam” was part of a set of programs in- versations are not just for Twitter or blogs.